Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933 /

• Main Author: Weber, Torsten (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
• Subjects: Asia-History.; World history.; History, Modern.; World politics.; Asian History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Modern History.; Political History.

This book examines how Asianism became a key concept in mainstream political discourse between China and Japan and how it was used both domestically and internationally in the contest for political hegemony. It argues that, from the early 1910s to the early 1930s, this contest changed Chinese and Ja...